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If the date in the slug is accurate this is relatively early on (2011/12/22) - well before it became the desired battleground for ideological differences, and w
by brodouevencode 4y ago
If the date in the slug is accurate this is relatively early on (2011/12/22) - well before it became the desired battleground for ideological differences, and well, well before Twitter (or even Reddit) became the cesspools they are now. So there is a little novelty in this post that is probably sincere.
- 878654Tom 4y agoImplying the internet as a whole isn't a cesspool since the start. I remember Medal of Honor/Call of Duty lobbies, MSN Communities, bulletin boards,... were quite a bit... worse. Every lobby you joined was a cesspool of racism, sexism,... Heck, even Reddit was much worse in the beginning. While now you have Democrats versus Republican discussions, in the first years you had communities that openly talked about committing genocide of other races and sharing jailbait pictures. The worst of Twitter now is very tame in comparison of those unmoderated lobbies.
- brodouevencode 4y agoFair to a point. In those times you knew what you were getting into. The users picked the winners (popular kids) and the losers - it was truly the wild west but at least it was truly community (for lack of a better word) driven. The difference is that now the platforms pick the winners and losers. That's where it fell apart.